What are the cases where you'd use a modal popup ? Does it interrupt the user's flow, if it all of a sudden opens up in his face ? Would you avoid modal popups in general ? or when should one be careful of using them ? Edit: To be a bit more specific, the situation here is this : I have a menu on the right, (VisualStudio style) when...
I want to use modal pop-up windows in our web app in Ruby on Rails. Note that I don't want to create a new browser window, but a sub-window inside the existing webpage. We've tried things like TinyBox, but there are issues with returning error information from inside the controller. Any good method or tool that works well in ruby? ...
I need to replace our Ajax Modal Popup controls with a JavaScript equivalent. We use this as a simple context sensitive help type popup. I did a quick browse but didn't see quite what I was looking for. I just need some text and a simple Close button/link, but I would like the page darkened below the popup, as it does with the Ajax modal...
Hi, I'm trying to have text spans pop up on a hover pseudo-class for different lines in a menu (list items). I can have the pop-ups occupy the same space in the div if the menu/list is horizontal, but a vertical list places the popups at the same vertical height as the "parent" list/menu item. Any ideas - please! Here is the relevant ...
I currently open a pop up window from my parent page using using a JavaScript .showModalDialog function. The pop up window contains some ASP.NET validation controls which do not display when the user clicks the ASP.NET button to submit the form. If there is an error on the page, the validation message(s) do not display, the record is n...
Hiya, A site I need requires a check on the user when they click links which will take them to external websites (don't ask why, it just does..) The client wants some sort of popup box which will then have "do you really want to go?" along with 2 buttons for yes or no. Now I've done all this in the classic browser popup so far, as it...
I have a web page with an iframe in it (I don't like it, but that's the way it has to be). It's not a cross-domain iframe so there's nothing to worry about there. I have written a jQuery extension that does the centering of a ModalPopup (which is called from an overridden AjaxControlToolkit.ModalPopupBehavior._layout method) based on t...
Dear All, I have an ASP.NET web page(Not MVC ) (HomePage.aspx) and another page (PRiceList.aspx).I have a login feature in my Home page.So when a user logged in the site, They can go to the pricelist.aspx page easily using a link in homepage.If some one is entering the page with out logging in , I want to show a modal login box (backgro...
I have a modal popup that has a targetId to a hidden button. I want the popup to occur when a button in a grid is clicked but that button is programmed behind the code and therefore the targetId would be invalid... So I wanted to attempt to set the gridview's button's onclientclick event to be the onclientclickevent of that hidden butto...
I have a pop up, that opens when i select a link in parent form. If some exception occurs in page load catch of pop up window, then the error should go to parent page, not the pop up page. if exception is not occured in the pop up window, it will load pop up only with the contents. Error message is coming from one asp page., please help....
The button is derived from user control. I want to associate a pop-up window on click of that particular butoon. I can able to achieve this on click of anyother buttons on my base page but as that particular button is coming from a user control I am not able to trigger the pop-up window. Need help. $('#btnSendOrder').click(function() {/...
I write in .NEt and in classic ASP. I want to create a modal popup in asp. I like in .NET how the parent page can be disabled and turned a different color. Is this possible in ASP? Or is there no easy solution to get this done? If possible...how? ...
Hi all, I have a LinkButton inside a data list. When I click on this LinkButton, I want to open a modal widow and load another html page in it. Can you guys please help me with this? ...
Alright. I am using a Modal box pop up window to display business details of a dynamic table. This table is very long. Everything works right with the modal box, but if they are say scrolled to the bottom of the page, it always opens the Modal box at the very top of the page. So they would have to do a lot of scrolling back down this w...
Several times I got into conditions my scripts threw alerts in high rates. While there is an alert modal window open, you can't do any other action in the browser. I am looking to develop an add-on that will enable me to kill or suspend the "thread" the alert modal window belongs to. In What direction should I look? ...
I used a image gallery engine called prettyPhoto.js to a wordpress site that I was creating. However, for some strange reason the image gallery seems to have completely stopped working and I can't for the life of me find out how to rectify this problem (without explicitly going through the entire site and stripping out the rel="prettypho...
I am trying to set up a sites navigation which extends over several levels. I have built one option for the client where the different levels open using jquery and want to now see how this looks within a modal window. However, I am using FancyBox FancyBox which I have used to load the navigation from an ajax call. It displays fine unti...
I'm looking for something very, very close in functionality to the lightbox on Apple's MacBook Pro website (the lightbox will open automatically). I really need the thumbnail slider and the text-area. The layout can be different, as I have the skills to remodel it if need be, I just don't have the time to build it from scratch. No pre...
Hello, The pages of my web application are loaded really slowly on Internet Explorer 6, compared to Firefox : around 6s for IE6, 3s for Firefox. The size of the pages are indeed a big problem in my application, but I also know that the <rich:modalPanel> is really slow on IE6 (due to DOM manipulations). As we use a lot ot them, I thin...
I want to open an overlay window (pop up window) when a user selects a cell in my NSTableView similar to selecting an event in iCal. Selecting the event in iCal shows a Window to edit the event, but does so by smoothly animating the window open and adding an arrow pointing to the even in the underlying calendar. Does anyone know what is ...